The number of teaching, teaching-related and non-teaching personnel in the country's public schools dwindled by 38,463 from 1,016,066 in 2022 to 977,603 in 2023. Despite the reduced number of teaching personnel, the Commission on Audit (COA) said its state auditors recorded an increase in the total...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Majority and minority members of the House of Representatives are on the same page--Vice President Sara Duterte should drop her "squid tactics" and answer the damning Commission on Audit...
La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V (left), Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun (Facebook) Ranking congressmen believe that serving spoiled milk or "nutribuns" to schoolchildren--particularly during the Department of Education’s...
Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas (Facebook) Makabayan solon Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas has slammed the Department of Education (DepEd) for purportedly distributing spoiled food under its P5.69-billion School-Based Feeding Program...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, Sept. 3, confirmed that public school teachers and non-teaching personnel will soon receive salary increase differentials. (ARNOLD QUIZOL / MANILA BULLETIN) Issuing a statement, DepEd said it has started processing salary increase differentials...
Teachers expressed outrage on Tuesday, Sept. 3, over allegations of budget misuse under Vice President Sara Duterte’s leadership at the Department of Education (DepEd). Vice President and former DepEd Secretary Sara Duterte (MB Visual Content Group) The allegations emerged following a House...
DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Ranking congressmen praised Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara for his pleasant behavior and willingness to cooperate with them during the agency’s...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has called out the Department of Education (DepEd) over its unsettled P12.297 billion notices of disallowances and suspensions, and the "substantial accumulated unliquidated" cash advances of P6.959 billion in 2023. In its 2023 annual audit report, the COA blamed...
Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara (Angara’s Facebook page) A Mindanao congressman who fumed over the Department of Education's (DepEd) chronic failure to address the country’s shortage of...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Jil Bongalon (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) House Assistant Majority Leader Ako-Bicol Party-list Rep. Jil Bongalon is calling for an inquiry into what he described as the "rigged" bidding of laptops and other...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Some P9 billion worth of laptops that were supposed to boost the Department of Education's (DepEd) e-learning program weren't delivered in 2023 or during the last full year of Vice...
Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong (PPAB) Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong is pressing the Department of Education (DepEd) to take immediate action against contractors who failed to fulfill obligations under the agency’s...
